perchlorate's legal status

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Submitted by Matt Hagemann <mhagemann@swape.com>

EPA's regulations define hazardous wastes to include those that are
specifically listed in the regulations as well as those that are
"characteristic wastes." Characteristic hazardous wastes are defined as
wastes that are ignitable, corrosive, reactive, or toxic. A federal
district court in California recently ruled, in part, that perchlorate
is a hazardous waste under RCRA because it is ignitable.*

*Castaic Lake Water Agency v. Whittaker Corp, 272 F. Supp. 2d 1053 (C.D.
Cal. 2003). The conclusion that perchlorate is a hazardous waste was the
first step in the court's analysis of whether perchlorate is a hazardous
substance under CERCLA. (The definition of hazardous substances under
CERCLA includes hazardous waste under RCRA.)

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